Originally Posted by waitingtables

People once thought it was deviant for women to have equal rights, and for blacks to be considered 100% human. Christianity has no place in limiting legal freedoms. I don't give a rat's ass what the bible says. We don't live in a theocratic state that forces beliefs into laws. As we evolve, we have a document that is what we based our government and laws on, and that evolves along with us. And so when we decide that 13 is to young to get legally married, it is voted on, and either rejected or passed into law.

Americans reject the notion of legalising homosexual marriage every chance they get. No state ballot has ever approved homosexual marriage.





As I have stated before, I don't think that we will ever have a majority that will allow humans to marry their pets, or close family to wed, or for it to be okay that bigamy or polygamy are acceptable. But it is possible that we have evolved enough to recognise the rights of people to not be legally discriminated against based on their consensual relationship with another human. If a church does not wish to recognise that right, that is their prerogative. But the law is an entirely different matter. Under the law, barring gays from the right to legally marry one another is discrimination, as written in the Constitution.